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Faculty

Prof. Georges Abi-Saab

Honorary Professor of the Graduate Institute; Member of the Institute of International Law; former Judge on the Appeals Chamber of the ICTY-ICTR; former Member of the Appellate Body of the WTO; former judge ad hoc on the ICJ

Teaches the intensive course: The Metamorphosis of the International Judicial Function

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Dr. Sébastien Besson

Partner in Python & Peter

Co-teaches the second general course: International Legal Proceedings

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Prof. Laurence Boisson de Chazournes

Professor of Law and Director of the Department of International Law and International Organizations at the University of Geneva
Member of the Board of Directors of the Program

Co-teaches the first general course: The Organization of International Dispute Settlement

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  Prof. Pierre-Marie Dupuy

Prof. Pierre-Marie Dupuy, Professor of Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

Teaches the intensive course: The Power of the International Judge or Arbitrator to Interpret the Facts and the Law

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Prof. Emmanuel Gaillard

Professor of Law at the University of Paris XII; Chair of Shearman & Sterling’s international arbitration practice; Chair of the International Arbitration Institute

Teaches the intensive course: ICSID Arbitration

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Prof. Jean-Michel Jacquet

Professor of Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies; Director of Le Journal du droit international
Member of the Board of Directors of the Program

Teaches the intensive course: Contrats d’Etats

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Prof. Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler

Professor of Law at the University of Geneva; Founder and Partner in Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler
Director of the Program

Co-teaches the first general course: The Organization of International Dispute Settlement

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Prof. Marcelo Kohen

Professor of Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Member of the Board of Directors of the Program

Co-teaches the second general course: International Legal Proceedings

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Prof. Lu Song

Associate Professor at China Foreign Affairs University, Beijing

Teaches the intensive course: Arbitration in China

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Prof. Gabrielle Marceau

Counsellor, Legal Affairs Division, World Trade Organisation; Associate Professor of Law at Geneva University

Teaches the intensive course: WTO Dispute Settlement

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Prof. Robert Mnookin

Professor of Law at Harvard Law School; Director of the Harvard Negotiation Research Project and Chair of the Program on Negotiation

Teaches the intensive course: Negotiation

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Prof. William Park

Professor of Law at Boston University; Vice-President of the London Court of International Arbitration

Teaches the intensive course: Arbitration in the United States

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Prof. Jan Paulsson

Head of the international arbitration group at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer; President of the LCIA; President of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal; Professor at the University of Dundee

Teaches the intensive course: Investment Arbitration

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Prof. Joost Pauwelyn

Professor of Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

Co-teaches the second general course: International Legal Proceedings

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Prof. Antonio Rigozzi

Professor extraordinarius at the University of Neuchâtel and Partner in Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler

Teaches the intensive course: Sports Arbitration

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Dr. Thomas Schultz

Senior Lecturer (Maître d'enseignement et de recherche) at Geneva University Law School
Executive Director of the Program

Teaches the intensive course: Philosophical Aspects of Dispute Settlement: An Introduction

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Prof. Brigitte Stern

Professor of Law and Director of the Research Centre in International Law at the University of Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne

Co-teaches the second general course: International Legal Proceedings

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Prof. Pierre Tercier

Honorary Chairman of the ICC International Court of Arbitration; Honorary Professor at the University of Fribourg

Teaches the intensive course: ICC Arbitration

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Prof. Albert Jan van den Berg

Professor of Law at Erasmus University, Rotterdam; Partner in Hanotiau & van den Berg; General Editor, Yearbook Commercial Arbitration

Teaches the intensive course: The New York Convention of 1958

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Instructors

Mr Ian Meakin

Ian Meakin is an English barrister and a tenant at XXIV Old Buildings, Geneva and London. Ian has taught at the University of Geneva for many years now and has extensive experience in international commercial arbitration both as counsel and as arbitrator.

Teaches the workshop: Legal Writing

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Ms Birgit Sambeth Glasner

Birgit Sambeth Glasner is a partner at ALTENBURGER LTD legal + tax and serves also as substitute judge at the Geneva courts. Ms. Sambeth Glasner has extensive expertise in arbitration and commercial mediation.

Teaches the workshop: Mediation

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Mr Geoffrey Senogles

Director of the Switzerland office of LBC Investigative Accounting

A Welsh Chartered Accountant and member of the Academy of Experts, Geoffrey Senogles acts as financial expert witness in ICSID and ICC arbitrations (including as tribunal's own expert). His practice includes clients from commerce, banking, NGOs, UN, governments, law firms and others. He was formerly on staff at UNCC, Geneva. He taught financial damages at CEPMLP, University of Dundee, and for SJ Berwin in London.

Teaches the workshop: Financial Damage Analysis.

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Former Faculty

Prof. Andrea Bianchi

Professor of Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and at Catholic University Law School in Milan

Teaches the intensive course: Jurisdictional Immunities

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Prof. Robert C. Bordone

Prof. Robert C. Bordone, Thaddeus R. Beal Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School; Director of the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program.

Teaches the intensive course: Dispute Systems Design

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Prof. Lucius Caflisch

Honorary Professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies; former judge at the European Court of Human Rights; member of the International Law Commission

Teaches the intensive course: The Concept of Due Process in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights

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Prof. Francisco Orrego Vicuña

Prof. Francisco Orrego Vicuña, Professor of Law at the University of Chile; former President of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal; former President of the Institut de droit international.

Teaches the intensive course: Investment Arbitration in Latin America and the Development of International Law

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Prof. Daniel L. Shapiro

Prof. Daniel L. Shapiro, Director of the Harvard International Negotiation Program.

Teaches the intensive course: International Mediation: Underlying Dynamics

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Mr Erik Wilbers

Director of the Arbitration and Mediation Center of the World Intellectual Property Organization

Teaches the intensive course: Arbitration and Mediation of Intellectual Property Disputes at WIPO

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